ipWhitelist HowTo

[Oss]

I just updated to the latest version of MM and am having White-list issues once again. I am using my exact same config.js file that was allowing any incoming connection. prior to the upgrade. I have attempted to debug but am not seeing any connection refusals in the mm-out-0.log. I have tried various fixes from posts on this forum, including disabling IPv6. I have confirmed my CIDR criteria using https://www.ipaddressguide.com/cidr#range attempting different variations to get anything to pass through with no luck.

I use MMM-syslog as a notification system from various sources and am basically in the dark now. Is there anyone having similar issues with the latest version, any luck on how to fix?

[Mykle1]

@Oss

Have you tried this at the beginning of your config?:

var config = {
	address: "0.0.0.0", 
	port: 8080,
	ipWhitelist: [],

[Oss]

@Mykle1

My hats off to you Mykle1, made that change to my config file and its working perfectly!! Thank you so much for your quick reply!!

[Mykle1]

@Oss

'Welcome, mate.

Peace!

[illskool]

Hello All. I recently upgraded my magic mirror and no matter what changes I make I can’t get ipwhitelist to work. I have searched the forums and every suggestion I have come across hasn’t rectified my issue. I had it working just fine prior to the upgrade. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Illskool

[lavolp3]

@illskool

How long ago was your last update?

Just to be sure, have you tried @Mykle1’s solution, which seems to help in most of the cases this has happened in recent months?

var config = {
    address: "0.0.0.0", 
    port: 8080,
    ipWhitelist: [],

adding the “address” part on the top of the config? This seems to be mandatory for the newer versions of MM.

Also, be sure to have no syntax error in your config.
Run

npm run config:check

from your MM directory and see of there are no errors.
Done all that?

[illskool]

@lavolp3

Thanks for the quick response. I’m not sure if I just overlooked it or if I’m just exhausted from trying to figure this issue out for the past several hours, but either way your tip solved my problem. I thank you very much.

I’ve been working on a new project to stream a camera I have setup on another raspberry pi on my local network to the magic mirror. My oil tank is under my house in a crawl space and I’m tired of making the crawl every couple of weeks to see how much oil I have left. I was able to use an infrared camera to stream the video and display it on the mirror using Iframe. I didn’t want it to be visible on the mirror unless I wanted to do a quick check and thats when I realized that the remote module would solve my issue but I couldn’t access it. You have helped finish my project. I can now go to sleep:)

Cheers

[svenr]

I tried everything wich is written in this post but i cant make it all the time it says:

This device is not allowed to access your mirror.
Please check your config.js or config.js.sample to change this.

[Mykle1]

@svenr said in ipWhitelist HowTo:

Please check your config.js

Are you saying that this is in your config.js file and you still cannot connect?

var config = {
    address: "0.0.0.0", 
    port: 8080,
    ipWhitelist: [],

[svenr]

@Mykle1
Yes right but maybe i have another mistake i am a beginner and i have not really a idea about it
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[Mykle1]

@svenr

Looking at the picture you provided shows your ipWhitelist: [], is populated. Can you try it just like this? ipWhitelist: [],

[svenr]

@Mykle1 like this it works. Thank you for your help!

[Mykle1]

@svenr

Good. Now all the devices on your network have access. If you want to limit access to specific devices then you should search this forum for ipWhitelist info. This topic has been discussed at length

[ToddKlindt]

@lavolp3 said in ipWhitelist HowTo:

Maybe I have missed this from someone else, but one important thing about the whitelisting message:

“This device is not allowed to access your mirror.
Please check your config.js or config.js.sample to change this.”

The EXACT SAME message appears (in my case) if the config.js has syntax errors. Locally your mirror will tell you that there is no config file or just give you a black screen, but if you try to reach it from outside through a browser (Firefox and Chrome in my case) with a broken config.js, you will get the whitelisting message above.

So, before trying to get your ipWhitelist in the right shape, make sure you have no other syntax errors with the mirror, e.g. using

npm run config:check

If you had some and had them corrected, be safe and restart the mirror.
Below you can see the example in my case.

pi@magicmirror2:~ $ tail ~/.pm2/logs/mm-out-0.log
No helper found for module: helloworld.
All module helpers loaded.
Starting server on port 8080 ...
Server started ...
Connecting socket for: updatenotification
Sockets connected & modules started ...
Launching application.
Access denied to IP address: 66.249.93.64
Access denied to IP address: 80.157.5.50
Access denied to IP address: 80.157.5.50
pi@magicmirror2:~ $ cd MagicMirror/
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.1.2 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
> node tests/configs/check_config.js

Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
Line 260 col 9 Expected ']' to match '[' from line 26 and instead saw '{'.
Line 261 col 16 Expected '}' to match '{' from line 11 and instead saw 'module'.
Line 261 col 22 Missing semicolon.
Line 261 col 16 Unrecoverable syntax error. (95% scanned).
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ sudo nano config/config.js
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ npm run config:check

> magicmirror@2.1.2 config:check /home/pi/MagicMirror
> node tests/configs/check_config.js

Checking file...  /home/pi/MagicMirror/config/config.js
Your configuration file don't containt syntax error :)
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $ pm2 restart mm
Use --update-env to update environment variables
[PM2] Applying action restartProcessId on app [mm](ids: 0)
[PM2] [mm](0) ✓
┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┐
│ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ cpu │ mem      │ user │ watching │
├──────────┼────┼──────┼─────┼────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┤
│ mm       │ 0  │ fork │ 901 │ online │ 6       │ 0s     │ 18% │ 2.3 MB   │ pi   │ disabled │
└──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┘
 Use `pm2 show ` to get more details about an app
pi@magicmirror2:~/MagicMirror $

I wanted to quote this as it just happened to me. MM was working fine remotely. I made some edits to config.js and got the dreaded “This device is not allowed to access your mirror…" message. I hadn’t edited the whitelist, so I started doing all of the network troubleshooting. Seeing this post reminded me I had done some edits and sure enough, I missed a comma somewhere and the screwed it all up. Fixing that unrelated entry in the config.js made this error go away.

[lavolp3]

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[AndrewVircks]

I have tried all of the suggestions to get MMM-Remote-Control to work and I cannot figure anything out. Any help would be appreciated. I keep getting Cannot GET /remote.html and I’m not sure what to do from here.

[mochman]

That doesn’t sound like an ipWhitelist problem. Did you install MMM-Remote-Control per the instructions? If so, what exactly are you getting your error message on and what are the IPs of your magicmirror and device?

[AndrewVircks]

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[payal09]

Please help me out, i do all the things whatever consulted in forum to access the remote control, but it is not working from my phone, or any other devices.
It just working on the pc from where raspberry pi is operated through vnc.
Please, help me. My project submission date is too close, please help.

[gjones444]

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Has anyone found a fix for the issue below? I tried hardcoding my raspberry pi IP address and creating a range of acceptable IP addresses but still not able to access the MagicMirror from my desktop or phone. Any advice?